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CBS NewsNebraska Man Arrested For Allegedly Waterboarding His GirlfriendThaindian.com... taken into custody by authorities after he allegedly subjected his girlfriend to the technique of waterboarding as he suspected her of cheating on him. ...Man accused of waterboarding girlfriend he thought was unfaithfulUSA TodayMan Gets Arrested For Waterboarding GirlfriendThaindian.comMan arrested 'for waterboarding girlfriend'MSN NZ Newsall 46 news articles »
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Terror suspect gets victim status in Polish probeeTaiwan NewsAl-Nashiri's lawyers believe he hasn't been tried yet because he was subjected to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques in Poland and ...and more »
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The NYT And Torture: The Double Standard Deepens, CtdThe Atlantic... its news pages for waterboarding, hanging people in stress positions for long periods of time, freezing people to near death, and all the techniques the ...
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Terror suspect held at CIA secret prison gets victim status in Polish probeThe Canadian PressAl-Nashiri's lawyers believe he hasn't been tried yet because he was subjected to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques in Poland and ...and more »
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Is torture losing its shock value?U.S. Catholic magazineMuch of the recent debate has focused on the practice of waterboarding, a type of simulated drowning, which the United States until now has always treated ...
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'New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator' Introduced By BoingBoingHuffington PostUnless of course, they were referring to other nations, using the same brutal techniques. In those cases, waterboarding become "torture" once again. ...and more »
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Press TVUN report cites US Human Rights abusesPress TVWaterboarding - an 'enhanced interrogation technique' used by the US government which the UN considers torture. The United Nations Human Rights Council has ...
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Thiessen's misleading attack on due processWashington Post (blog)This is in character for Thiessen -- he previously tried to claim that waterboarding Khalid Sheik Mohammed prevented a terror plot that had unraveled a year ...and more »
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The Secrets Of Interrogation Review: Mind GamesOntheBoxAttention grab, Belly slap (yes it's a real technique) and Water boarding, are all forms of interrogation used by the CIA. ...
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Barbara Boxer: "nothing off the table" on Iran; wants Americans' "safety ...San Francisco Chronicle (blog)... the use on suspected terrorists of water-boarding and other treatments that were described by President Bush as "enhanced interrogation techniques" but ...and more »
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Bradbury Ignored Damage Done by WaterboardingFiredoglake (blog)Furthermore, as a Truthout article last month notes, the discontinuance of waterboarding was not due to mere failure at resistance to the technique. ...
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Assalamu 'Alaikum - {Peace Be Upon You} Water boarding, a form of torture or rather an "enhanced interrogation technique" was authorised by the Bush adminstration to be carried out by the CIA upon "Al-Qaeda Suspects" in Guantanamo. This "approved interrogation techinique" ie water-boarding involves strapping a person to an inclined board, with their feet raised && head lowered. The interrogators cover the face && bind the person's arms && legs preventing any movement. In some descriptions, the person is gagged, && some sort of cloth covers the nose && mouth; in others, the face is wrapped in cellophane. The interrogator then repeatedly pours water onto the person's face. Depending on the exact setup, the water may or may not actually get into the person's mouth && nose; but the physical experience of being underneath a wave of water seems to be secondary to the psychological experience. The person's mind believes they're drowning, && their gag reflex kicks in as if they were choking on all that water falling on their face. If this isn't a brutal inconsiderate form of torture then what is it? May Allah subhana wa ta'ala break free the shackles of all the innocent Muslim prisoners held in these prisons for no crime committed other than their eiman in La ilaha ill Allah Muhammadur Rasul Allah!! 'Ameen!
2005 Story: Chertoff Opposed Technique Threatening Imminent DeathFiredoglake (blog)And given the story's report that Chertoff approved waterboarding even while he opposed what was probably mock burial, it suggests that the problem was not ...
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Lesley Docksey: Pontius Pilate Washes His HandsUN ObserverIn February 2008, the US Director of National Intelligence, Michael McConnell, told a Senate committee that waterboarding was “a legal technique used in a ...
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Internal Memo Exposes Yoo and Rove Lies on Safety of WaterboardingFiredoglake (blog)In this first of a short series of articles, we will look at the myth of the safety of waterboarding, which relies on misstatements about how the technique ...
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Why John Yoo's Attempts to “Negate” the Torturers' Intent FailsFiredoglake (blog)So, in response, CIA barraged John Yoo and Jennifer Koester with information purportedly showing that waterboarding and sleep deprivation did not cause ...and more »
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Kulongoski links recessions, tough political atmosphere to warsOregonLive.comI mean we never thought that our government would ever say that waterboarding was a reasonable interrogation technique. "I think those issues strike deep ...
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For Thiessen to be right, everyone else must be wrongMedia Matters for AmericaThiessen writes: [I]n 2008, Senator Christopher Dodd declared in a speech on the Senate floor, "Waterboarding [is] a technique invented by the Spanish ...Thiessen's Disaster -- Wash. Post columnist's anti-Obama book filled with ...Media Matters for Americaall 2 news articles »
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The Salt Pit and the Bybee MemosFiredoglake (blog)Ultimately, though, this case points to how the Bybee One and Two memos worked in tandem, with Bybee Two authorizing things like waterboarding, ...and more »
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Durham Going after the First Destruction of Torture Tapes?Firedoglake (blog)... match the descriptions of allowable waterboarding. GIG's review of the videotapes revealed that the waterboard technique employed at was different from ...and more »
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CNNFormer CIA spy speaks out in new bookCNNHe didn't have firsthand knowledge, but he said he had read cables that indicated the simulated drowning technique was used just once, because Zubaydah ...In New Book, Ex-CIA Agent Comes Clean, Falls FlatRoll Call (subscription)The spy who came in from the farmThe Hillall 8 news articles »
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David Davis MP ACCUSES MI5 of 'OUTSOURCING TORTURE' - UK COMPLICIT IN TORTURE MI5 [Security Branch] of Thames House next to Lambeth Bridge, Millbank has been COMPLICIT in TORTURE flagrantly in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 3: "NO ONE [IN THE 27 MEMBER STATES OF THE EU] SHALL BE SUBJECT TO TORTURE, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT! " Yet both the HOME SECRETARY [Alan JOHNSON] & FOREIGN SECRETARY [David MILLIBAND] LIED TO THE UK COURT OF APPEAL [See the Censored Paragraph 168 of the Unanimous Judgment of the UK Court of Appeal - holding the UK in BREACH of being COMPLICIT IN TORTURE! - such as the discredited, evil & unlawful "Water-boarding" technique - the administration of TORTURE simulating DROWNING a person - which was one of the Heinous methods of TORTURE used in The Middle Ages under the authority of the "Black Pope" [the Jesuit Superior General] throughout the Spanish Inquisition in order to extract questionable "Confessions" at every single opportunity! BRITAIN has LEARNT nothing! BRITAIN continues to DECEIVE & DISSEMBLE - at every single opportunity! The UK HOME SECRETARY [Alan Johnson] & FOREIGN SECRETARY [David MILIBAND] speak at great length in hectoring other Sovereign countries in terms of UPHOLDING HUMAN RIGHTS but the UK is acknowledged in their BREACH NOT in their SUPPORT of the same ! DIEGO GARCIA - in the Chagos Archipeligo - a SOVEREIGN Country STOLEN by the UK is now involved in the UNLAWFUL ABDUCTION OR KIDNAPPING BY US & UK ...
The main point of this is to notice that only minutes after Steve Harrigan has this done to him... he was ready for the report. This is a great video to show that this technique is not deadly.
abcnews.go.com KARL: ... waterboarding, clearly, what was your... CHENEY: I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques that... KARL: And you opposed the administration's actions of doing away with waterboarding? CHENEY: Yes. Wishing it were a bad idea to confess to war crimes on national television at www.michaelmoore.com
The last Amesty International PIF I will be uploading, until I can find the last one, anyone know what it is? Looks like it could be mistaken for an advert for Vodka or something but it's a PIF, telling you about the disturbing waterboarding technique, and I think the guy in this is not acting, but it's a bit hard to tell, unlike the stress position one, which you could see that the guy was in total agony, in fact it could be the same guy, they look alike and sound alike.I'm probably right. Amesty International like to go for realism, to be honest I don't know what poor sod would agree to have painful methods of torture performed on him, maybe he was a sadist, which would be in the favour of Amesty International, they would want as many sadists as they could get. I think they do get the point across with this one, gives a sense of emotional impact in one way or another, although I don't think it's as effective as Fire Kills or Drinking And Driving Wrecks Lives, but I think it works to the best of their ability, which I suppose is all they can do in the end. Scare factor: 7/10 Content advisory: 15
Physicians for Human Rights: Doctors Role in CIA Waterboarding "May Amount to Human Experimentation" A new report by Physicians for Human Rights has found that physicians and psychologists played a greater role than previously known in designing, implementing and legitimizing the Bush administrations torture program. The recently declassified CIA Inspector Generals Report detailed how medical professionals collected data on the reaction of prisoners to interrogation methods in order to help the CIA assess and refine the use of waterboarding and other techniques. The group says this may amount to human experimentation.
Kaj Larsen investigates the practice of waterboarding, an interrogation practice allegedly used by the US government. Is it a legitimate technique or torture? VIEW more Vanguard & SUBSCRIBE to the youtube Playlist here... www.youtube.com
YOU can support a FULL investigation of torture at aclu.org Fox News in general and Bill O'Reilly in particular have been very supportive of the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, including techniques like waterboarding which the United States has prosecuted as torture in the past, so it was no surprise this week when the release of a 2004 report from the CIA's office of inspector general did not stop "The O'Reilly Factor" from dishonestly spinning the revelation even though it showed the effectiveness of torture to be ambiguous at best as you can see in this video. You can see the August 24, 2009, segment from Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" from which I took 2 short clips for my video on YouTube, apparently uploaded by Jami Floyd's publicist, at www.youtube.com You can find the 2003 memo quoting an anonymous senior CIA officer that I show in this video at media.mcclatchydc.com You can find the 2004 review of "Counterterrorism, Detention, and Interrogation Activities" from the CIA's Office of the Inspector General that I showed in my video on the ACLU's website at aclu.org And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at www.youtube.com
Recorded from NPR's (National Public Radio's) show: "On the Media". The weekly, one-hour program is America's only national radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis. When Robert Mukasey was confirmed as attorney general in November '07. The process moved the definition of waterboarding into the spotlight. As media struggle to find out what the interrogation technique entails, the working definition has been "simulated drowning." But those who've experienced and performed it say it is drowning. Ex-SEER (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) instructor Malcolm Nance expresses his opinion on the issue. As well as two newspaper editors. - The John Yoo memo in the video can be found at: www.aclu.org NY Times article on this memo available here: "03 US Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations" By Mark Mazzetti April 2, 2008 www.nytimes.com excerpt: "...Similar to the document written for the CIA in August 2002, Mr. Yoos memorandum offered a narrow definition of what constitutes torture." "The victim must experience intense pain or suffering of the kind that is equivalent to the pain that would be associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in a loss of significant body functions will likely result, Mr. Yoo wrote." "...Amrit Singh, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said that the Yoo memorandum seemed to give military interrogators carte blanche to use any techniques and suggested that it was ...
Recorded from NPR's (National Public Radio's) show: "On the Media". The weekly, one-hour program is America's only national radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis. When Robert Mukasey was confirmed as attorney general in November '07. The process moved the definition of waterboarding into the spotlight. As media struggle to find out what the interrogation technique entails, the working definition has been "simulated drowning." But those who've experienced and performed it say it is drowning. Ex-SEER (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) instructor Malcolm Nance expresses his opinion on the issue. As well as two newspaper editors. - The John Yoo memo in the video can be found at: www.aclu.org NY Times article on this memo available here: "03 US Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations" By Mark Mazzetti April 2, 2008 www.nytimes.com excerpt: "...Similar to the document written for the CIA in August 2002, Mr. Yoos memorandum offered a narrow definition of what constitutes torture." "The victim must experience intense pain or suffering of the kind that is equivalent to the pain that would be associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in a loss of significant body functions will likely result, Mr. Yoo wrote." "...Amrit Singh, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said that the Yoo memorandum seemed to give military interrogators carte blanche to use any techniques and suggested that it was ...
Recorded from npr's (National Public Radio's) show: "On the Media". The weekly, one-hour program is America's only national radio program devoted to media criticism and analysis. When Robert Mukasey was confirmed as attorney general in November '07. The process moved the definition of waterboarding into the spotlight. As media struggle to find out what the interrogation technique entails, the working definition has been "simulated drowning." But those who've experienced and performed it say it is drowning. Ex-SEER (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) instructor Malcolm Nance expresses his opinion on the issue. As well as two newspaper editors. - The John Yoo memo in the video can be found at: www.aclu.org NY Times article on this memo available here: "03 US Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations" By Mark Mazzetti April 2, 2008 www.nytimes.com excerpt: "...Similar to the document written for the CIA in August 2002, Mr. Yoos memorandum offered a narrow definition of what constitutes torture." "The victim must experience intense pain or suffering of the kind that is equivalent to the pain that would be associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in a loss of significant body functions will likely result, Mr. Yoo wrote." "...Amrit Singh, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said that the Yoo memorandum seemed to give military interrogators carte blanche to use any techniques and suggested that it was ...
Met Police Waterboarding Allegations Six Metropolitan Police offficers have been suspended over allegations that they tortured drug suspects using waterboarding techniques. Mark Stone has the details. Officers Suspended Over Waterboard Claims Six Scotland Yard officers have been suspended over allegations of 'waterboarding' drug suspects. They are said to have pushed the suspects' heads into buckets of water in a bid to force them to reveal the locations of drugs. Sky's Martin Brunt reports.
Jesse Ventura with some truth about waterboarding,....... Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing the victim on his or her back with the head inclined downwards, and then pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages. By forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences drowning and is caused to believe they are about to die.It is considered a form of torture by legal experts, politicians, war veterans,medical experts in the treatment of torture victims,intelligence officials,military judges,and human rights organizations. As early as the Spanish Inquisition it was used for interrogation purposes, to punish and intimidate, and to force confessions. In contrast to submerging the head face-forward in water, waterboarding precipitates an almost immediate gag reflex.The technique does not inevitably cause lasting physical damage. It can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage or, if uninterrupted, death.Adverse physical consequences can start manifesting months after the event; psychological effects can last for years. In 2007 it was reported that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)was using waterboarding on extrajudicial prisoners and that the United States Department of Justice had authorized the procedure,a revelation that sparked a worldwide political ...
Countdown's Keith Olbermann is joined by conservative Chicago radio jock Erich "Mancow" Muller, whose voluntary submission to waterboarding changed his mind about whether the technique is torture.
Former Governor of the Minnessota Republic Jesse "The Body" Ventura educates a brainwashed blonde woman on THE VIEW, which aired on 5.18.09 How have US citizens benefitted from the war in the middle - east? Ex navi "Seal" Ex pro "Wrestler" Ex govenor of "Minnessota" From Rawstory.com: "Ventura on The View: If waterboarding is fine, why dont cops do it? By David Edwards and Stephen Webster Published: May 18, 2009 Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, making a guest appearance on abcs The View, gave co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck a lesson or two about the torture technique known as waterboarding. Ventura, who underwent a barrage of torture techniques at the military Survival, Evade, Resist and Escape (SERE) school, confirmed for Hasselbeck that waterboarding is torture and not just an enhanced interrogation technique. If waterboarding is okay, why dont we let our police do it to suspects to learn what they know? he asked to a chorus of applause. Thats an interesting question, Hasselbeck said. I understand that question. If waterboarding is okay, why didnt we waterboard [Timothy] mcveigh and [Terry] Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombers, to find out if there were more people involved? Whats your answer to that? he asked. We only seem to waterboard Muslims. Thats an extremist statement, said Hasselbeck. Aha! cheered Ventura. Have we waterboarded anybody else? Name me someone else weve waterboarded. She could not, instead shifting focus to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA ...
Jesse Ventura called in to the Fox News Strategy Room with Alan Colmes to talk about why waterboarding is torture, which he can attest to from personal experience. From May 22, 2009.
From Rawstory.com: "Conservative radio hosts gets waterboarded, and lasts six seconds before saying its torture Chicago radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller decided he'd get himself waterboarded to prove the technique wasn't torture. It didn't turn out that way. "Mancow," in fact, lasted just six or seven seconds before crying foul. Apparently, the experience went pretty badly -- "Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment to stop," according to NBC Chicago. "The average person can take this for 14 seconds," Marine Sergeant Clay South told his audience before he was waterboarded on air. "He's going to wiggle, he's going to scream, he's going to wish he never did this." Mancow was set on a 7-foot long table with his legs elevated and his feet tied. "I wanted to prove it wasn't torture," Mancow said. "They cut off our heads, we put water on their face...I got voted to do this but I really thought 'I'm going to laugh this off.' " The upshot? "It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that's no joke," Mancow told listeners. "It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back...It was instantaneous...and I don't want to say this: absolutely torture." "Absolutely. I mean that's drowning," he added later. "It is the feeling of drowning." "If I knew it was gonna be this bad, I would not have done it," he said. The 42-year-old radio ...
Mccain states waterboarding is not "enhanced interrogation techniques", it's torture.
Alex talks with retired professional wrestler, Navy UDT veteran, actor, former radio and television talk show host and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. ______ Jesse Ventura: Cheney should be waterboarded, but couldnt survive it Jones Report | May 21, 2009 In exclusive, yet-unseen video filmed months ago, former governor Jesse Ventura outlines views he holds on waterboarding and "enhanced interrogations" with Alex Jones that he is only now espousing all across the mainstream media including recent appearances on The View, Fox News and Larry King Live. Ventura suggests that Dick Cheney should be waterboarded before supporting the controversial torture technique but doesnt believe his weak heart would be able to survive the undergoing. Ventura himself was waterboarded as part of his SERE school training and feels that no one who has been subjected to the treatment would ever advocate its systematic use. MORE www.infowars.com
(5/21/09) [Complete Speech] Dick Cheney speaks at the American Enterprise Institute about the policies implemented during the Bush years to deal with Terrorism after the 9/11 attacks. (Part 1): www.youtube.com (Transcript): "Remarks by Richard B. Cheney": www.aei.org
(5/21/09) [Complete Speech] Dick Cheney speaks at the American Enterprise Institute about the policies implemented during the Bush years to deal with Terrorism after the 9/11 attacks. (Part 3): www.youtube.com (Transcript): "Remarks by Richard B. Cheney": www.aei.org
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, making a guest appearance on abcs The View, gave co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck a lesson or two about the torture technique known as waterboarding. Ventura, who underwent a barrage of torture techniques at the military Survival, Evade, Resist and Escape (SERE) school, confirmed for Hasselbeck that waterboarding is torture and not just an enhanced interrogation technique. If waterboarding is okay, why dont we let our police do it to suspects to learn what they know? he asked to a chorus of applause. Thats an interesting question, Hasselbeck said. I understand that question. If waterboarding is okay, why didnt we waterboard [Timothy] mcveigh and [Terry] Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombers, to find out if there were more people involved? Whats your answer to that? he asked. We only seem to waterboard Muslims. Thats an extremist statement, said Hasselbeck. Aha! cheered Ventura. Have we waterboarded anybody else? Name me someone else weve waterboarded. She could not, instead shifting focus to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who has been criticized by Republicans for a seeming contradiction in disclosing what she knew about then-President Bushs torture program, and when. They want her out because she lied? asked Ventura. Why didnt they ask for Bush and Cheney to go out when they lied about why we went into Iraq? This video is from msnbcs News Live, broadcast May 18, 2009.
From Rawstory.com: "Ventura on The View: If waterboarding is fine, why dont cops do it? By David Edwards and Stephen Webster Published: May 18, 2009 Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, making a guest appearance on abcs The View, gave co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck a lesson or two about the torture technique known as waterboarding. Ventura, who underwent a barrage of torture techniques at the military Survival, Evade, Resist and Escape (SERE) school, confirmed for Hasselbeck that waterboarding is torture and not just an enhanced interrogation technique. If waterboarding is okay, why dont we let our police do it to suspects to learn what they know? he asked to a chorus of applause. Thats an interesting question, Hasselbeck said. I understand that question. If waterboarding is okay, why didnt we waterboard [Timothy] mcveigh and [Terry] Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombers, to find out if there were more people involved? Whats your answer to that? he asked. We only seem to waterboard Muslims. Thats an extremist statement, said Hasselbeck. Aha! cheered Ventura. Have we waterboarded anybody else? Name me someone else weve waterboarded. She could not, instead shifting focus to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who has been criticized by Republicans for a seeming contradiction in disclosing what she knew about then-President Bushs torture program, and when. They want her out because she lied? asked Ventura. Why didnt they ask for Bush and Cheney to go out when they lied ...
"Wow, just wow. This was just absolutely stunning...AND embarassing! Is this woman living on the same planet as the rest of us? Jeebus. Heaven help this country if people like her (and yes, a lot of Republicans, too) remain in power!" Originally posted by "MsUnderestimated" on Liveleak
US Rep. Pete Hoekstra responds to Nancy Pelosi's Press Conference on what she did and didn't know about waterboarding and the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, 5-14-09.
Infowar Site: DProgram - dprogram.net 'Countering Propaganda' - A former FBI agent who interrogated suspected terrorists told a Senate panel Wednesday that no actionable intelligence was gained from enhanced interrogations such as waterboarding. I strongly believe that it is a mistake to use what has become known as enhanced interrogation techniques, said Ali Soufan who worked for the FBI from 1997 to 2005. These techniques, from an operational perspective, are slow, ineffective, unreliable, and harmed our efforts to defeat al Qaeda. Soufan said that intelligent interrogation techniques used by the FBI were in sharp contrast to the enhanced interrogation method that instead tries to subjugate the detainee into submission through humiliation and cruelty. The idea behind it is to force the detainee to see the interrogator as the master who controls his pain. Its merely an exercise in trying to force compliance rather than elicit cooperation. One major problem is that it is ineffective. Al Qaeda are trained to resist torture, he said. In contrast, when we interrogated using intelligent interrogation methods [on Abu Zubaydah] within the first hour we gained important actionable intelligence. This video is from C-SPAN 3, broadcast May 13, 2009.
[5/8/09] Ann Coulter: "Journalists keep submitting themselves not only on FOX--but submitting themselves to waterboarding and then saying, 'phew--that was torture.' No, you wouldn't submit to it if it were attaching electrodes to your testicles, that's torture." (4:00) Related Articles: Coulter: "Watching MSNBC Is Torture": www.humanevents.com "Top Intel Republican: Pelosi Has Lost Credibility on Interrogation Tactics": blogs.abcnews.com "Top Pelosi Aide Learned Of Waterboarding in 2003": www.washingtonpost.com Video From: FOX NEWS, "Hannity"
I wanted to know if waterboarding would truly count as torture. After doing research into accepted waterboarding techniques, I had myself willingly waterboarded by some friends. Although we do not think our procedure was as traumatic as those practiced in intelligence agencies, we believe it was enough to give me an honest taste of how it feels to be waterboarded. It was tolerable, seeing as it ended when I could not handle it anymore, but it still was painful. And yes - it did make me legitimately feel that I was drowning. I believe it is torture.
The CIA confirms that Nancy Pelosi was briefed on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques in 2002.
Testing the waterboarding torture technique at home.
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